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John Kinsella: poet, novelist, critic, and journal editor (5046 words) |
 | Although not a pacifist, Kant regarded war as the greatest evil besetting human societies, and in one passage he goes so far as to describe war as the source of all evils and of all moral corruption. |
| As a pacifist, I do believe that war is a "wrong", but I also agree that it's part of a "natural egoism": that is, that there's an inevitability in the human condition that leads to disagreement and conflict. |
| For me, from the absolute pacifist perspective, the suffering of the guilty is, within the terms of the language of "justice", as unjust as the suffering of the innocent. |
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